About the book: 2023 / Galina Muratova’s collection of stories is dedicated to ordinary people - residents of an ordinary unnamed city. These people live day after day and find themselves in ordinary life situations, but at the same time they feel, think and behave in the most unexpected ways, showing the best that they have in relation to both each other and the world in which they live. Due to the fact that all the best and brightest in a person is hidden, but still on the surface, we always have hope if we can touch it. Touch: a collection of stories / Galina Muratova. - Moscow, IMLI RAS, 2020. - 432 c.ISBN 978-5-9208-0641-3The cover depicts the painting “Galina Muratova”, artist Alexander Muratov, 2005.